Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Intel Core i7-12650HX

Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Core i7-12650HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12650HX is faster than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-12650HX has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12650HX. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12650HX. Despite this, the Core i7-12650HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12650HX outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697A v4 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-12650HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-12650HX.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.